W, language poet

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Fri May 18 17:29:55 PDT 2001


My cousin, Bob, is a L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poet. We have never discussed politics, but I think that he is lefty.

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 04:09:07PM -0700, Michael Pugliese wrote:
> Some of the L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poets are good lefties. Ron Silliman edited
> Socialist Review for a few years. Charles Bernstein's essays from North
> Point (I think) are a good read. Those two co-wrote a nice travelogue of a
> trip to Russia sometime in the early 90's. Not having been a lit major would
> one consider earlier leftish poets like Zukofsky or Olson precursors?
> On early 20 C. left poets, btw, see, "Repression and Recovery, " by Cary
> Nelson. Met him once at a VALB event. Looked like William Everson.
>

-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929

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